Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

How about those people who don't need sleep? What are they called again? Successful? What a bunch of dicks they are.

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.